You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

[nomy@lemmy.zip]

This is what cracks me up about the "your rifle won't fight a tank!" jackasses.

It's like, have tanks ever worked against a domestic insurgency? Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, I can't think of any time the U.S. military just wiped the floor and left.

[syrc@lemmy.world]

They’re not “against reform”, they’re disenfranchised, lazy or just… not the brightest minds.

They made a mistake (a big one at that), but that doesn’t mean that they like what’s happening. The upper class has been doing their best to keep us dumb, busy, tired and uninformed. And it’s clearly working.

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

And in those circumstances, the loss of life was even less of a hit. For every American you ordered shot, that’s one less customer or soldier you have, if the soldier you ordered to do the killing doesn’t just turn on you or refuse. Your position becomes weaker, even if you gain ground anywhere.

[olhonestjim@lemmy.world]

Let's see that package

[whalebiologist@lemmy.world]

thanks for the links, looking forward to checking them out.

[the_q@lemm.ee]

I straight up hate that so many people are just now brushing up against the fact that everything is marketing. Everything is purposeful. Everything is sinister. Goddamn.

[lonerangers1@lemmy.world]

in my workshop I keep safety glasses at each station, and then some more just around. I bought 6 pairs of the same model after trying out 8-10 different styles so they fit and work well also. I still need to force myself sometimes to take 3 steps to put them on.

The people who sit down to put together a solution for our mess will need to plan this way too. They will need to factor in how to make it easy for people. How to get the desired path of the chaotic group to align with the solution.

For an idea, I have been thinking a lot about decentralization like here at lemmy. What if, the government, was social media. What if each post was a proposal, and the up and down votes were actual votes. It could replace all politicians. No more lobbyists paying $5k for policy implementation. They would need to bribe us all, which would just be us getting better quality of life. A system without centralized power.

If it was in the top 3 apps in the mainstream repositories millions would stumble into it on their own.

[yarr@feddit.nl]

For better or worse, this seems to be way less of a problem on the Fediverse. I can't tell if it's because it's federated OR if it's because corporate America hasn't woken up to it (yet?!?). I find way more interesting discussions on lemmy than anywhere else on the net. Hopefully it stays that way!

[humorlessrepost@lemmy.world]

That’s what she said

[carbonbasednpu@lemm.ee]

How do you solve that though?

[naught101@lemmy.world]

Doom scrolling is facilitated by ad-optimised algorithms that push low-nuance, emotive content that gets a reaction, for views. (Thinking particularly of twitter and Facebook here)

The fediverse doesn't have that, and has no reason to, because as soon as any provider starts pushing ads, people will switch servers. So I think it WILL stay that way.

Also, I think as a consequence of having less combatitive content up front, people are generally in a less heightened emotional state as a baseline, and are able to approach more nuanced content more thoughtfully.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

I can't share it all here for reasons I can't detail.

I may do a second write up at some point for public distribution and if so, I will share it with you here.

[zealshock@slrpnk.net]

Funny, I find this in my doomscroll app. I just want out, man

[auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Idk. Ban from communities after negative karma threshold with an automatic vote weighted by users subreddit karma to appeal? Just the first thing that popped to mind though sure there’s better ways. Matrix was working towards something iirc last i checked.

[carbonbasednpu@lemm.ee]

If that was in place you could get banned from all of lemmy for saying that but it wouldn't even have to come from a mod just someone with enough free time to make a couple thousand accounts. I personally like the way one of the discords im in does it where it is basically a draft from the mod team to be head mod and leads to significantly less power tripping because they will be gone in the next month.